Sunday, July 2, 2023 bulletin

DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
Pastor Stephen Reist

We welcome all guests who have joined us.

 

Danforth Mennonite Church
July 2, 2023  10:30 a.m.
Order of Service

 Welcome and Land Acknowledgment: 

Call to Worship

Welcome and Announcements

Opening Hymn: VT #705  For the healing of the nations.

Offering

Hymn: VT #682 Lord, listen to your children praying.

Congregational Prayer

Scripture:  Matt. 6: 5 – 13

Hymn: VT #408  Crown Him with many crowns.

Message:  The Model Prayer

Closing Hymn: VT #556  I bind my heart this tide.

Benediction

 

Leading Us in Worship
Message                              Carol O.
Worship Leader              Mike D.
Song Leader                      Ed F.
Musician                             Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                             Cindy R., Bethany W.
Zoom Host                        Bonnie W.
A/V Technician               Fazal S.

 

Reminder:
We are on summer hours. 

Our service starts at 10:30 a.m.
 Adult discussion class and hymn sing

will return in September

Call to Worship
(from Psalm 141:1–2)

One: We call upon you, O God.

Many: Come quickly.

One: Let our prayers rise up as incense before you.

Many: Let our lifted hands be a sacrifice to you.

One: Holy One in heaven,
 
Many: We praise your name.
 
One: We pray for your reign to come.
 
All: We offer our worship.

 

Scripture Reading
Matthew 6:5-13 (NRSVA)

5 And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

7 ‘When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 Pray then in this way:

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10     Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11     Give us this day our daily bread.
12     And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13     And do not bring us to the time of trial,
but rescue us from the evil one.

 

Prayers of the People

One: Loving Parent, who exists beyond the realms we can imagine and within the deepest parts of ourselves, we thank you for the joy of gathering in community, and we celebrate together all that is good, and beautiful, and holy in our lives.
In your mercy, God,

Many: hear our prayer.

One: Tender Parent, we thank you for the teachings of Jesus and for the privilege of coming to you in prayer.
We lift up the people in this community and those we love. For those concerns that have been spoken and those we carry in our hearts,
in your mercy, God,

Many: hear our prayer.

One: Nurturing Parent, we pray that all people will have their daily bread— the food, housing, health care, support, and safety they need
to survive and thrive. In your mercy, God,

Many: hear our prayer.

One: Guiding Parent, let our earthly leaders follow your will so that the people and the systems of this world might look more and more like your reign of peace and justice.
In your mercy, God,

Many: hear our prayer.

One: Protecting Parent, deliver your children from evil. For all who suffer pain in mind, body, or spirit, for all who live in fear, for all who grieve, for all who face violence:
in your mercy, God,

Many: hear our prayer.

One: Holy Parent, let these prayers rise up as incense before you as we pray with this community of saints and in the quiet of our own hearts.

(Silence.)

Amen.

 

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Picnic Lunch at
Church of the Resurrection

Church of the Resurrection has invited us to join them every Sunday at 12pm after worship services for picnic lunch on their church property (1100 Woodbine Ave – a short walk from our church north of Danforth).  Bring your own lunch and get to know our neighbours.

 

The DMC Pastor Position is now posted on the MCEC website.

https://mcec.ca/ministry-opportunities

 

Ladies Walking group

We are taking the summer off.  Thanks to all of you who participated.  See you in mid September.

Worship Schedule reminder

July 9
Speaker                    Stephen R.
Worship leader   Cindy R.
Song Leader          Kathy W.
Musician                 Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Dalton & Carol J.
ZOOM host           Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Mike D.

July 16
Speaker                 Anthony Y.
Worship leader Linda D.
Song Leader        Ed F.
Musician                Stephen R. (guitar)
Greeters                Anne R., Vic G.
ZOOM host         Carol R.
A/V Tech               Roger H.

 

In summary, upcoming events
 

At Danforth
July
2  DMC summer hours  10:30 – 11:30 am.
2 – 7  Ottawa Mennonite Church “TOOLS” group
July 21 – Aug. 6  Pastor Stephen on vacation

Wider Church
August
13  Worship at Willowgrove

September
16  Greater Toronto Area Mennonite Festival at Willowgrove

Sunday, June 25, 2023 bulletin

DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
Pastor Stephen Reist
 
We welcome all guests who have joined us.

 

Danforth Mennonite Church
June 25, 2023
Order of Service

 Welcome/Introduction
 
Call to Worship

Opening Hymn: VT #611 Lift Every Voice and Sing

Announcements

Video presentation:  Danforth Grow Hope – Murray L.
 
Hymn: VT #747 We Plow the Fields and Scatter
 
Offering

Congregational Prayer Time
 
Scripture passage:  Philippians 4:5-13
 
Hymn:  VT #617   When Peace Like a River
 
Message:   Whatever is praiseworthy

Closing hymn: VT #793 We Are Marching
 
Benediction 

 

Our theme Think on these things
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8–9

 

Leading Us in Worship
Message                              Carol O.
Worship Leader              Sue J.
Song Leader                      Sue J.
Musician                             Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                             Cindy R., Bethany W.
Zoom Host                        Bonnie W.
A/V Technician               Murray L.
 

 

Adult Discussion group at 10:00 a.m.
This will be our last class until September.
We will finish up our “devilish” discussion.

 

 

Call to Worship

Leader: Hear, O people of God, and declare that the Lord is our God.

People: Our Lord is indeed God, the One who is Creator of heaven and earth and all who dwell in it.

Leader: We gather in response and gratitude to God’s invitation and love for us.

People: We’ve come to worship the God who created all humanity in God’s image and likeness, equal in dignity and worthy of regard and care.

Leader: Let us worship our great God together.

People: To the God of justice, love, and peace we lift up our hearts and minds and voices.

Leader: For even in the midst of injustice and oppression, this is still the day that the Lord has made.

All: And we shall rejoice and be glad in it.

 

Scripture Reading

Philippians 4:5-13 (NRSVU)
5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.

Acknowledgment of the Philippians’ Gift
10 I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me but had no opportunity to show it. 11 Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. 12 I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

 

A DISH WITH ONE SPOON

The Indigenous Nations
Welcomed settlers from across the seas
When they arrived in their territories
Such beauty revealed before their eyes
Was beyond their ability to describe
In all the languages that the Settlers spoke
There were no words that could evoke
With any clarity a single thought
That Mother Nature’s splendor brought
It was from the Indigenous tongues
That they learned the language of the Earth
In all Her idioms
TORONTO from TKARONTO
Trees standing in the water
A meeting place where small fish could gather
Nearby hills where Alders grow
That was called Etobicoke
In the autumn before the winter snows

The passenger pigeons rested in MIMICO
And to the west where the Great waters flow
The lake and lands were called ONTARIO
The eagle soars high with prayers for MANITOU
The MISSISSAUGA people smudge
And launch their birch bark canoes
Three sisters: corn, bean and squash
The planting season has begun
Tobacco is offered a gift to Grandfather sun
Sage, sweetgrass and cedar to Grandmother moon
There is peace, joy and contentment
In the treaty lands called
A Dish With One Spoon

A Dish With One Spoon
Dr. Duke Redbird ©
November 2, 2020

 

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Come and join us for MESSY CHURCH which is a
FREE FAMILY EVENT for children 4-12 on June 24th,
Saturday evening from 5-7p.m.

It includes crafts, games, Bible stories, music and dinner.  We ask that parents/caregiver accompany their children at this family event.

Messy Church will be taking a break for the summer and be back in September.

 

Do you have a submission for our next DMC Outlook? 
Please contact our editor, Bonnie

 

 

The DMC Pastor Position is now posted on the MCEC website.
https://mcec.ca/ministry-opportunities

 

 

We need books for our Little Library

 

Look at the poise of this highly skilled craftsman and all the ladders!
What we need is a bigger (gothic) window!
Roger climbed even all the way up there to refresh the frame of the dove.
Cheers, Walter

P.S.: Pic was taken by the apprentice’s assistant.

 

 

Ladies Walking group

This will be our last planned walk until September.
On Tuesday, June 27th at 10:30 am (weather permitting), we will be at Warden Woods/Gus Harris Trail (come in off of Pharmacy, north of the Danforth.
 
An email will go out on Monday June 26 to confirm the place and time.

If you need to be picked up or dropped off, please check in with fellow walkers or email Bonnie.

 

Worship Schedule reminder

July 2
Speaker                 Carol O.
Worship leader Mike D.
Song Leader        Ed F.
Musician               Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                Cindy R., Bethany W.
ZOOM host         Bonnie W.
A/V Tech               Fazal S.
 
July 9
Speaker                  Stephen R.
Worship leader  Cindy R.
Song Leader         Kathy W.
Musician                Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Dalton & Carol J.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Mike D.

 

In summary, upcoming events

At Danforth
June
24  Messy Church
26  Polling station here at DMC
27  Ladies Walking group – our last walk until Sept.
27  Cooking class

July
2  DMC summer hours  10:30 – 11:30 am.
2 – 7  Ottawa Mennonite Church “TOOLS” group

Wider Church
June
24  MCC AGM
 
August
13  Worship at Willowgrove

September
16  Greater Toronto Area Mennonite Festival at Willowgrove

Sunday, June 18, 2023 bulletin

DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
Pastor Stephen Reist

We welcome all guests who have joined us.

 

Danforth Mennonite Church
June 18, 2023
Order of Service

Welcome & Land Acknowledgement

Call to Worship

Hymn: VT #95    Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah

Announcements

Giving thanks for our gifts: VT #759  Take My Life and Let It Be

Prayers of the people

Hymn:  VT #170  Wonderful Grace of Jesus

Scripture Readings:  Matthew 23:10-13, 23-28
Ephesians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 12:27 – 13:11

Message:  Think on these things – whatever is excellent – confessions of a perfectionist

Hymn of Response:  VT #162   The Love of God

Benediction

 

Our theme Think on these things

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8–9

 

Leading Us in Worship
Message                              Stephen R.
Worship Leader              Dalton J.
Song Leader                      Ed F.
Musician                             Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                             Leslie & Fazal S.
Zoom Host                        Bonnie W.
A/V Technician               Don B.

 

Adult Discussion group at 10:00 a.m.
 
June 18 – The devil

 

 

Call to Worship

Open our ears

to hear your word

Open our eyes

to see your presence

Open our arms

to the embrace of community

Open our minds

to the beauty of truth

Open our hearts

to the joy of new life

 

 

Scripture Reading

Matthew 23:10-13, 23-28 (CEB)
10 Don’t be called teacher, because Christ is your one teacher. 11 But the one who is greatest among you will be your servant. 12 All who lift themselves up will be brought low. But all who make themselves low will be lifted up.
 
Condemnation of the legal experts and the Pharisees

13 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. You don’t enter yourselves, and you won’t allow those who want to enter to do so.

23 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You give to God a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, but you forget about the more important matters of the Law: justice, peace, and faith. You ought to give a tenth but without forgetting about those more important matters. 24 You blind guides! You filter out an ant but swallow a camel.

25 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of violence and pleasure seeking. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup so that the outside of the cup will be clean too.

27 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs. They look beautiful on the outside. But inside they are full of dead bones and all kinds of filth. 28 In the same way you look righteous to people. But inside you are full of pretense and rebellion.

Ephesians 2:8 (CEB)
8 You are saved by God’s grace because of your faith. This salvation is God’s gift. It’s not something you possessed. 9 It’s not something you did that you can be proud of. 10 Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be the way that we live our lives.

1 Corinthians 12:27 – 13:11 (NRSVUE)
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.

 

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Searching for a long-term pastor

Thank-you to Roger H. and Erma M., for revising the pastor’s job description and completing other forms and documents.

We sent these materials to Al R., MCEC regional minister, to support announcing the position to qualified pastors.

The Pastor Search Team met with Al on Thursday June 15th to clarify any questions.

Please continue to pray for Vic G., Murray L., Edgardo R., Sue S., and Lisa W., as they serve on this Team; for pastors who apply for the position; and for the MCEC staff who facilitate the process.
Regards,
Mike D.

 

Treasurer’s Report: We received $7,475 in offerings in May. $8,200 is needed each month to meet our 2023 operating budget. Our operating deficit is -$115 to the end of May.

We also received a designated donation of $100 for the 40 Teesdale Food Bank and an additional $200 directed towards our Danforth Grow Hope budget line.

 

Would you like to be a part of our worship team? 
 

For our schedule covering October through December 2023, we would like additional:

    • musicians (song leading and instruments),
    • worship leaders (we provide you with resource materials)
    • greeters for our lobbies
    • zoom hosts

Contact Bonnie if you are interested or would like additional information. 

 

Summer Hours will
commence July 2.
Our Church service will be
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
There will be no Adult Class or
Hymn Sing during the summer.

 

We need books for our Little Library

 

 

 

 

 

Do you have a submission for our next
DMC Outlook?
Please contact our editor, Bonnie.

 

Ladies Walking group

On Tuesday, June 20th at 10:30 am (weather permitting), we will be at Rosetta McClain Gardens.
An email will go out on Monday June 19 to confirm the place and time.

If you need to be picked up or dropped off, please check in with fellow walkers or email Bonnie.
 

 

Worship Schedule reminder

June 25
Speaker                   Carol O.
Worship leader   Sue S.
Song Leader          Sue S.
Musician                 Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Cindy R., Bethany W.
ZOOM host           Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Murray L.

July 2
Speaker                    Carol O.
Worship leader   Mike D.
Song Leader          Ed F.
Musician                 Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Cindy R., Bethany W.
ZOOM host          Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Fazal S.

 

WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Imagine having your predictable daily routine disrupted by bombs and gunfire and losing all sense of control and safety for your family. Imagine going to bed hungry, worrying about where your next meal will come from or if your water supply is safe for your children to drink. Imagine not having a community of like-minded people to feel connected to.

This is the experience of millions of refugees around the world.

We invite you to pray, not only for those suffering around the world but for guidance as to how you can help the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger — the refugee — through hospitality and hope. We invite you to be inspired through worship, as worship has the power to transform us into God’s likeness and stir up a desire to help others.

 

National Indigenous History Month
(June) and
National Indigenous Peoples Day
(June 21)

 are a time for all Canadians to recognize the rich history, heritage, resilience and diversity of Indigenous peoples and to reflect on the ongoing impact of colonialism on these communities. 

Explore the resources and events below to help celebrate and appreciate the diverse cultures found in Canada’s Indigenous communities.

Resources

 

In summary, upcoming events

At Danforth
June
20  Ladies Walking group – Rosetta McClain
20  Cooking class
24  Messy Church
26  Polling station here at DMC
27  Ladies Walking group – our last walk until Sept.
27  Cooking class

July
2  DMC summer hours  10:30 – 11:30 am.
2 – 7  Ottawa Mennonite Church “TOOLS” group

Wider Church
June
24  MCC AGM

August
13  Worship at Willowgrove

September
16  Greater Toronto Area Mennonite Festival at Willowgrove

Sunday, June 11, 2023 bulletin

DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
 
Pastor Stephen Reist

We welcome all guests who have joined us.

 

Danforth Mennonite Church
June 11, 2023
Order of Service

Land Acknowledgement

Welcome

Call to Worship

Opening Hymn:  VT 31   Come, We That Love

Announcements

Offering

Offering Prayer:  VT 1023

Hymn:  VT 698   Somebody Prayed for Me

Congregational Prayer

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17: 20-47

Hymn:  VT 428   Praise with Joy the World’s  Creator

Message:   Worthy of our Admiration

Closing Hymn:   VT 161   I Sought the Lord

Benediction

 

Our theme: Think on these things
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8–9

 

Leading Us in Worship
Message                             Margaret A.
Worship Leader             Linda D.
Song Leader                     Sue S.
Musician                            Jessica M. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                            Leslie S., Murray L.
Zoom Host                       Bonnie W.
A/V Technician              Roger H.

 

 Adult Discussion group at 10:00 a.m.
 June 12 – Mr. Ryerson and Mr. Truman
June 19 – The devil

 

Did you do your homework?

Dear Danforth thinkers,
This week Margaret invites us to think on whatever is admirable.
So, start by brainstorming your list of the top 10 things or people you admire.
Then, choose a couple of those things you listed and consider these questions:

  • a) What routines in your life support your admiration of this thing or person?
  • b) If you were to have a conversation with Jesus, telling him about this thing you admire, how would that go?

It is said “we are what we love (admire)”  Does that make sense to you?  Does your list reflect who you are?

May God’s Spirit be at work in our minds and hearts through this exercise.
Stephen

 

Scripture Reading
1 Samuel 17: 20-47 (NIV)

20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. 22 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.

25 Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”

26 David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”

28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

29 “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?” 30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.

32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”

38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.

“I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”

45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

 

DANFORTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Make sure that you check
 out the website below.

https://sowingforpeace.org

Congratulations to Jessie and Anthony on your website for Sowing for Peace.  Jessie says “This will officially be complete within 2 weeks (with some major changes).”  We thank you for all the work you are doing to promote peace.

 

Treasurer’s Report: We received $7,475 in offerings in May. $8,200 is needed each month to meet our 2023 operating budget. Our operating deficit is -$115 to the end of May.
We also received a designated donation of $100 for the 40 Teesdale Food Bank and an additional $200 directed towards our Danforth Grow Hope budget line.

 

Would you like to be a part of
our worship team? 

For our schedule covering October through December 2023, we would like additional:

    • musicians (song leading and instruments),
    • worship leaders (we provide you with resource materials)
    • greeters for our lobbies
    • zoom hosts

Contact Bonnie if you are interested or would like additional information. 

 

 

Summer Hours will
commence July 2.
Our Church service will be
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
There will be no Adult Class or
Hymn Sing during the summer.

 

 

Would you like to join other congregations
in publicly thanking Toronto fire and
police services, as well as Enbridge Gas,
for safely repairing the June 6th
natural gas leak near Michael Garron Hospital?

The date and time are not yet determined, so we're not asking for a firm commitment; just whether you would try to attend. Please contactRoger H. by Sun. June 10.

 

We need books for our Little Library
 Our shelves are empty

 

 

 

 

An investment for you, bonus interest
for what you believe in!

Kindred Credit Union offers you a unique way to invest through Community Inspiration GIC’s. You invest in a guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) that earns a competitive interest rate and, in return, Kindred donates an additional quarter percent interest to your congregation or qualifying charity.

This offer is available for a limited time. If you are interested in investing, please contact Kindred before June 30 and consider naming Danforth Mennonite Church as the bonus interest recipient. For more information, call or visit your local branch or kndredcu.com/CI-GIC.

 

Ladies Walking group

On Tuesday, June 13th at 10:30 am (weather permitting), we will be at Greenvale Park. Take Kingston Road to Celeste Drive (which is about halfway between Scarborough Gold Club Road and Galloway.  Go north on Celeste Drive.  Turn left on to Greenvale Terrace.
 
An email will go out on Monday June 12 to confirm the place and time.

If you need to be picked up or dropped off, please check in with fellow walkers or email Bonnie.

 

Worship Schedule reminder

June 18
Speaker                     Stephen R.
Worship leader    Dalton J.
Song Leader           Ed F.
Musician                  Kathy W. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                  Leslie & Fazal S.
ZOOM host           Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                  Don B.

June 25
Speaker                   Carol O.
Worship leader   Sue S.
Song Leader          Sue S.
Musician                 Roger H. (piano), Ray W. (tuba)
Greeters                 Cindy R., Bethany W.
ZOOM host           Bonnie W.
A/V Tech                 Murray L.

 

WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

War in Ukraine: When Peace Cannot be Won on the Battlefield

 Do you want peace in Ukraine? As a person of faith, do you feel the urgency to do something but feel powerless? Grace Mennonite Church in St. Catharines made a podcast from a presentation by Ernie Regehr, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, Officer of the Order of Canada, Pearson Peace Medal laureate, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. Listen here.

https://www.gracemennonitechurch.com/seminars-2023.html

 

In summary, upcoming events

 At Danforth
June
10  Men’s breakfast
13  Ladies Walking group – Greenvale Park
13  Cooking class
20  Ladies Walking group
20  Cooking class
24  Messy Church
27  Ladies Walking group – our last walk until Sept.
27  Cooking class

Wider Church
June
24  MCC AGM

August
13  Worship at Willowgrove

September
16  Greater Toronto Area Mennonite Festival at Willowgrove